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VOL. 62. N0.;132
USG to Consider 3 -Bills
On NSA Investigations
By ROCHEU.E MICHAEIS
Three bills which would enable
the Undergraduate .Student Gov
ernment to use the facilities of
the National Student Association
will be presented to the USG Con
gress tonight. • •
, A bill to investigate the Inter
national Student Cooperative Un
ion book ordering service, handled
through NSA, be sponsored
by Murray Winderman, West.
Winderman's bill provides that
USG establish a committee to
finance 20 students , who would
oin and use the services of ISCU.
In - return, those students will be
expected to report on the • suc
cess of their membership.
INCLUDED:- IN tliat - report
should be statements on the avail
ability of a University textbook
list and the accuracy of the list.
The cost and speed of ISCU book
service and the comparative prices
of these books with those pur
chased- downtown should also be
included.
If the report IS favorable, Win
der Man asks that the committee
present Congress with a plan to
establish a permanent USG book
ordering service through ISCU.
. Another of Winderman's bills
on NSA asks that the Congress
pay !to send seven delegates to
Heat to Continue
The record-breaking heat wave
is expected to 'extend into - its
fourth day 'today, and no relief
is - in sight.
The temperatuke soared to with
in•one degree of the - ail-time high
reading for May again yesterday.
A high of 92 degrees was re
corded at about 4 in the afternoon.
High temperatures and humidity
are expected to continue into and
possibly through the weekend.
Afternoon temperatures:will prob
ably reach 90 degrees each day.
Thundershowers are possible
each afternoon, but skies for the
most
,part will be partly dourly.
Overnight' low temepratures will
range between 62 and 66 de: rees.
Cspaslai MA* by Ira Traaklla
MLitt 14-rannt'6 4 eld Weirnarener, lakes the pause that refreshes
as the mercury seared . to a stew-record high yesterday. Mike is
owned by William Malin. senior in zoology from Pre:petit Park.
UNIVERSITY PAK. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 17. 1962
NSA's convention, the National
Student Congress, from August 19
to 30 at Ohio State University.
The University is entitled to
seven delegates at NSA's Con
gress. Winderman proposes that
one representative be a member
'of the USG executive, three be
members of the Congress elected
by, the Congress and three be ap
poiiited by the USG president with
the consent of Congrest:
ALLISON WOODALL. South,
will present a -third bill about
NSA providing that USG form a
committee ; to investigate bring
ing "big _name entertainment" to
campus during- the coming aca
demic year through, the booking
services of NSA.
At last night's Town Indepen
dent Men's executive meeting.
Robert Stillman, town area, was
instructed to make two recom
mendations to the USG Congress.
The first is that USG • investi
gate building a new auditorium
and an:addition to the Hetzel Un
ion Building. •Earlier this :week,
USG President Dean Wharton
said fie would propose, a bill to-
Primary Results Support Parties
By AL BtITICUS
Tuesday's primary election re
sults supported party-backed gu
bernatorial candidates and nomi
nated State College precinct
officers.
Democrat Richardson Dilworth
and Republican William Scranton
won easy victories in the primary
elections and' a chance to face
each other for the governor's post
in the Nov. 8 elections.
SCRANTON, businessman and
industrialist, won by- more than
a seven-to-two margin over his
only competitor, J. Collins Mc-
Sparran of Lancaster County.
Dilworth, ex-mayor of Philadet;
phia, was better than a 4-to-I
winner over his two corn .•ti-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
night forming an investigation
cu.. on a new auditorium.
The second recommendation is
that USG act to improve its hous
ing list. The proposal states that
some landlords do not know the
list exists, and others cannot con
tact USG to have their names
placed on it. TIM recommended
that the housing committee revise
, the •housing list before next fall
andi increase the size of the hous
ing i committee to remedy these
situations.,'
• ALSO INCLUDED under new ,
business is a proposal - by Fred
Good, fraternity area, that 'USG
I form a committee to investigate ,
changing the University's present ,
grading system to a five-point
system with direct equivalence to
the 1 numerical system.
Winderman is scheduled to pre-.
sent a third bill tonight proposing
that next year's Congress receive
a full report of USG activities
and, administrative committees re-+
lating to USG.
Anne Morris. North, will give a
report on the NSA regional con
(Continued on page five)
Lora, Harvey F. Johnson from Mc-
Kees Rocks and Charles J. Schmitt
from Girard.
_
Johnson, a real estate dealer,
plans to continue campaigning for
governor as an independent.
In State College. four Univerl
sity professors .were elected to
Democratic party officers in four
of the six precincts.
professors will represent
their party as committeemen hi
their respective precincts for two
year terms. Their jobs will coni.
sist of organizing the party in ,
their precincts so that the resrt
dents know when and where their
can register and vote. • •
Arthur N. Reede, professor of
economics, was re-elected for a
fifth- term as committeeman for
the East Central precinct.
Reede also ran for state senatdr
in 1950 and, Was defeated by the
incumbent, James E. Van Zandt.
Eugene A;Myers, associate pr
I e g
fessor of economics, ware-elected
as committeeman for the South
precinct. This is his fourth term
in this office.
"EVERYONE OUGHT to par
ticipate_in some kind of civic duty,
and as committeeman you are
able to see concrete evidence Of
how democracy works," Myers
said.
Collegiate Digest
, The Collegiate Digest will be
distributed with today's copy
of The Daily Collegian.
ces
To secure more efficient uti
lization of available workspace,
some assignments of administra
tive office space in Old Main will
be reshuffled in the coming
months. Stanley H. Campbell, vice
president for business, said yester
day.
By September, Campbell said,
the changei which are planned for
the first and second floors should
be completed.
THE DEAN OF MEN and his
staff will occupy part of the quar
ters formerly used by the Division
of Counseling on the first floor
of Old Main, in addition to the
offices they now occupy, he said.
Campbell said this would en
able the dean of men to have all
his assistant deans at the same
location.
The area now used by the Place
ment Service for offices and inter
view- rooms will, be given initK*)
Troops Land
In Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)
About 1,800 American Leather
necks begin landing four miles
from the heart of Bangkok today
to put teeth into President Ken
nedy's pledge to defend Thailand
from the Communist threat in
Laos.
Thefirst wave of Marines was
to come ashore at Klong Toey
and board Thai army trucks for
Don Muang Airport at once. They
will be flown by U.S. Cl3O Hercu
les transports to bases in north
ern Thailand near the sensitive
northeast border with Communist
menaced Laos.
THREE WARSHIPS from the
U.S. 7th Fleet steamed into the
Gulf of Siam last night.
While the Valley . Forge an
chored off shore, the landing ship
Point Defiance and the attack
transport Navarro steamed up
Chao Phya River to dock at Klong
Toey and discharge Marines and
equipment.
Robert H. McCormick, asiociate
research professor -in chemical
engineering, was re-elected- for 'a
fourth term - as committeeman' in
the North precinct.
Harold J. O'Brien. assistant
dean of liberal arts, was elected
committeeman of the West pre
cinct:
O'Brien said he feels that every
citizen in a free society should
give some time to civic duty.
The Republicans In Centre
County elect only the county
party chairman and he in turn
picks the precinct committeemen
rand committeewomen.
H. B. CHARMBURY. head of
the Department of Mineral Prepa
ration, was re-elected for a second
term of office as Republican
county chairman.
Sciuer Resigns Physics Positron
John A. Sauer ,
professor and,the Department of Mineralogy,
head of the Department of Physics,;and Henry W. Sams. professor of
has resigned his post as depart- English, make up the committee,
meat head effective July I. Wil-;Kenworthy said
mer E. Kenworthy, executive :IS- Ferdinand Brickwedde, dean of
sitant to the President, said yes- the College of Chemistry and
terday. Physics, and. Sauer have been
Richard G. Stoner, professor known to have had differences of
,of physics, said last night a corn-,opini4 'in the past. Ketiworthy
`rnittee has been apointed by Presi-;added. •
dent Eric A. Walker at the request! Sauer's resignation, he said, af
of the department's faculty to in-'f e cted only his pomtion as head
yestigate the resignation. 'of the department.
Howard A. Cutler, assistant to; Sauer was attending an out-of
•the vice presiderft for academic town conference last night and
affairs, John C. Griffiths, head of could not he reached for comment.
Old Main Reshuffled
the dean of women and her staff,' The offices of the vice presi
he said. I deas for. business and for finance,
The Alumni Association will'along with the office of the co
keep the major part of its present ordinator of commonwealth cam•
area and in addition will occupy puses, will temain'unchanged, he
the area now used by the dead ot added.
women. The President's office will
• •
THE ROOMS VACATED by the . ca u . n
d mi ergo li on u . , ly id slight modification,
Alumni Association-101, 102 An d
The office of the former special
103—will be taken over by ,the' amititant to the President. Chris-
Penn State -Foundation, Camp-.
;tian K. Arnold, and part. of the
bell said. The foundation's old,of - :office of the vice proident for
fires will become the quarters of :resident instruction will become
the Office of Student Affairs Be- ' , the location of the President's
search. 'filet Campbell said. '
The portion of the Division of: '
Counseling offices not taken Over: THE VICE. PRESIDENT for de
by the Dean of Men will be givenveloprnent and his staff. •Cainp
to the Office of Student Affairs!bell said, will be located in the
for the commonwealth campuses.iarea adjacent to the board room,
On the second floor, the areainow occupied in part .by Howard
formerly used by the Department i A. Cutler, assistant to the vice
of Purchases , 207,01 d Main, willipresident for academic affairs.
become the offices •of the vice! Cutler's office will be moved to
president for research and ;his 205 Old Main and 204 verM be occur
staff, Campbell said. !pied. by Arnold's-sepikement
US. Supersabre Jeti already
were deplored to TA Khh Airbase
60 nules north of Bangkok.
ALREADY THAILAND has
moved crack Thai units with U.S.
military advisers to the border.
There they and the Marines may
be joined before long by at least
token units front other Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization mem
bers, whose officials are in con
sultation on the crisis in - Laos.
The first of about 45 U.S. Air
Force jet fighter-bomber and at
tack planes streaked to a landing
at Bangkok's airport yesterday,
only a few hours after President
Kennedy and the Pentagon had
announced plans to build up a
5,000-man Southeast Asian combat
command on Laos' border.
The first arrivals were 12 FlOO
Supersabres, each packing four
20-mm.. cannon and capable of
carrying heavy packages of con
ventional or nuclear bombs at
1,000-mile-per-hour speeds. They
flew from the 13th Air Force
Squadron base at Clark Field in
.the Philippines.
A satmpßom of slower but
mighty MD Skyhawks, which can
carry up to 'three tons of bombs,
also was included in the buildup.
They also are capable' of carry
ing nuclear weapons.
The Marine:" reinforce a 1,000-
man Army combat group that re
mained in Thailand idler SWAM
(maneuvers two weeks ago. Addi
tional Army men from the Pacific
command will arrive later. -
THE ENTIRE FORCE is undlkr
the command of Lt. Gen. Jamem 1..
Richardson, 52, an expert in jar
gle and guerrilla warfare He will
act under the over-all direction of
Gen. Pall D. Harkins. chief of the
U.S. military assistance command
in South Vict Nam.
Miltiary sources said ¢iq C 124
and CI:10 transports .would he
flown to Bangkok to ferry the
Marines immediately to positions
in northeast Thailand.
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